That's the problem with ready mixed bags of salad! I sympathise with the bug. I hope you threw the salad away, they spray them with a weak insecticide to kill bugs but any which get stuck to the salad can cause severe stomach upsets due to streptococcal growths.

I'm glad you survived Reid, I know someone who became very ill from eating bagged salad!

Think of not only the larger bugs, which in theory shouldn't have made it's way into the salad, but those tiny bugs barely visible to the human eye. If any of those haven't been washed off the salads, and that is very possible given the nature of salads, then you could easily be eating something nasty.

JRsbugs......you're good ---I miss having access to an insect dichotomy key chart and microscope!!! The only time I have found a critter in my salad was at a Beef and Ale years ago and luckily didn't ail from the experience.....it was a quite obese, healthy weevil crawling over the salad that must have been hiding in the lettuce.....I didn't make an issue of it, but the restaurant insisted on comping my meal......

My camera is my microscope, and good websites where professionals hang out or have set up have helped in the past but research, research and more research is the trick.

As the weevil was alive, it might have dropped onto your lettuce from inside the building, these things can fly and people can bring them inside on their clothing. I bet it made you feel sick by the thought of it!

Who knows where my critter came from.....he was FAT and very much ALIVE!!! He really didn't frighten me as much as he did the staff......I thought the whole thing was hilarious........I know.......weird! :